allowing leaders of parties to be rigorously questioned rather than just superficially, politicians not just parroting the party line, having parliaments that serve their function as debating and auditing chambers rather than just point-scoring ones, having news outlets with proper investigative journalism, and having a degree of plurality to media ownership.

I'm not saying that places like Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries are perfect, but they're a fair distance better than the UK at the moment.